{"id":33030,"date":"2022-06-02T02:17:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elliot-page-was-surprised-by-the-reaction-to-his-transition\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T02:17:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:17:41","slug":"elliot-page-was-surprised-by-the-reaction-to-his-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elliot-page-was-surprised-by-the-reaction-to-his-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Page was surprised by the reaction to his transition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elliot Page has found great joy in being himself.<\/p>\n

The Umbrella Academy<\/em> actor and transgender advocate, 35, talks about his transition and finally being comfortable in his own skin in a new interview kicking off Pride Month. He’s also candid about being harassed for being transgender and how transphobic jokes made by famous comedians only spawn hate.<\/p>\n

“What have I learned from transitioning?” Page asks in the cover story for Esquire<\/em>‘s Summer 2022 issue. “I can’t overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself. I know I look different to others, but to me I’m just starting to look like myself. It’s indescribable, because I’m just like: There I am . And thank God. Here I am. So the greatest joy is just being able to feel present … To go out in a group of new people and be able to engage in a way where I didn’t feel this constant sensation to flee from my body, this never-ending sensation of anxiety and nervousness and wanting out. When I say I couldn’t have ever imagined feeling that way, I mean that with every sense of me. “<\/p>\n

The Oscar-nominated star of Juno<\/em> didn’t expect the reaction to his transition, announced in 2020, “to be so big.” He did, however, expect the quality of it to be both loving and supportive as well as cruel, and that is what came.<\/p>\n

“I came out as gay in 2014, and it’s different. Transphobia is just so, so, so extreme,” he said. “The hatred and the cruelty is so much more incessant.”<\/p>\n

He recalled a large man screaming at him in menacing way on an LA street, to name just one scary and hateful interaction.<\/p>\n

“‘<\/strong>You f **** t! Don’t look at me! You f **** t, f **** t! ‘”He recalled the stranger saying.” I couldn’t even just go …’ I’m not looking at you. ‘ … I decided in my brain – because he was so tall – <\/em>that I couldn’t do anything physically. If I said something, he could retaliate. If I turned around, that could trigger something else. So I thought: I’m just going to have to bet on standing completely still and staring straight ahead.” <\/em><\/p>\n